Unix, how do I use man cmmand
Yes Unix is great. And You are right I am becoming a real fan of it because it offers you so much power. Mostly is used like a shell OS, and not using it’s GUI xWindows. Anyways it’s amazing the easiness of learning it because it comes with manual pages for most of the possible topics. There it comes the man command , which whom you can retrieve useful informations about any protocol/command.
You just need to use it like man topic and that’s it. If you want to know more about the telnet command just type man telnet
If you are not sure about the name of a command you are interested in, you can do a keyword lookup to find it. Just type man -k kw | more where you’ll replace kw with a representative keyword. For example if you want to find the function that copy files, but you don’t know its name is cp, you can just type man -k copy |more.
In some Unix distributions the man -k command has to be replaced by apropos. So the previous example will be apropos copy | more
You’ll laugh now but if you want to find more about man command you can just type man man 
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